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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Vixen, Vixen, Vixen. I want to like you. I do. I just binged all six of your episodes. You’re a good
show. The animation is nice. The actors are good. The story is good. BUT there
is one big fricking problem – You don’t seem understand that there is more than
one shade of brown.

Okay, that’s unfair, maybe you know there are two or three,
but come on! Mari kept changing tones, sometimes due to lighting, sometimes
not. All of the African characters were pretty much the same light shade as
both Mari and Professor Macalester. You showed two characters with darker
tones, a cop and an assailant. This makes no sense to me. Look at your cast!
They all have different skin tones. Why is that diversity not represented in
your animation?

Also, have you been to Detroit? It’s consistently ranked in
the top ten, usually the top five, of cities with the highest percentage of
African Americans. So why did I see mostly white people?

And don’t get me started on Cisco? I liked how you handled Barry
and Oliver. You captured their essences. And I liked the vibe of Cisco, but
Carlos Valdes has a different skin tone than Grant Gustin and Stephen Amell. All
you had to do was change his coloring a little bit, and he would have been
perfect. If my Microsoft Word can give me customized shades, I think whatever
animation programs you are using can do the same. It’s lazy. And this show is
too good for to be screwed up by laziness.

Get it together, CW Seed. Vixen has a lot of potential. I
want it to succeed, but I also want respectable representation of who these
characters are and the environments they live in. You can do better. Do not
fail this show.

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